were closer by a considerable margin

[Selviya87]

Dear teachers,

I find a sentence from Warren Buffet Speaks (I'm in the middle of reading it) which is quite confusing for me, especially the highlighted words:

Warren eventually abandoned Conservative politics:

“I became a Democrat basically because I felt the Democrats were closer by a considerable margin to what I felt in the early ’60s about civil rights.”

Would you please paraphrase the complete sentence also, so I could grab the exact meaning. Thanks indeed,

selviya87

[Tdol]

He felt that the ideas of the Democratic Party were much closer than those of the Republican Party to his position on civil rights in the early 1960s.

[Rover_KE]

Selviya, for the THIRD TIME . . .

. . .you grasp the meaning - not grab it.

Do pay attention!

Rover